The Kindergarten Teacher

A kindergarten teacher discovers that her 5-year-old pupil has a prodigious gift for poetry--which is great until she becomes obsessed with the kid, trying to protect his talent in spite of everyone else. Israeli writer-director Nadav Lapid has created an engrossing (not to mention award-winning) drama here about art, integrity and madness. In Hebrew with English subtitles. 119 minutes Unrated.